For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

you are well known to be a letter of Christ, written by us as his ministers, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

But to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart:

but whenever their heart shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

We do not again commend ourselves to you, but give you an occasion to boast of us, that you may be able to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

(for he says: I have heard thee in an acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation:)

Corinthians, our mouth is opened to you, our heart is enlarged:

But thanks be to God, who put the same earnest care for you in the heart of Titus:

Let each one give, as he purposes in his heart; not with grief, nor from necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

was caught away to Paradise, and heard words not to be spoken, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.